A bunch of the cardiac physiology journals just posted new issues, so I’ll be selecting a few articles over the next few days to review. The first one will be K⁺ Dependent Regulation of Matrix Volume Improves Mitochondrial Function Under Conditions Mimicking Ischemia-Reperfusion by Korge, Honda, Weiss, and Geffen of UCLA. It’s currently in PresS [sic] with AJP Heart Circ Physiol, if you’d like to take a look. I’ll have an abstract, plus a link for you academically journal-enabled folks, tomorrow or shortly thereafter when I review it.

I got the table of contents notice for the latest Circulation, and it’s all race, race, ethnic groups, race. Circulation is, after all, more of a clinical journal, so I expect them to focus some on risk factors, etc, but this entire issue of perhaps the ‘best’ journal in the field is entirely absent of interesting information for me, the basic scientist.

AJP Heart had an interesting article. More on that when I get a chance to read it.

(PS – LiveJournalers – this is synced from my partly work-focused blog… would you guys rather I didn’t sync the science stuff?)

I can’t believe I nearly forgot it was Pi-day. I even read the sign about Pi-day events today and didn’t realize today’s 3/14.

Happy Pi Day, while there’s still an hour left here in good old CST6CDT.

It’s been a productive day, but I noticed something. When I do stuff, it often makes me think of new things that I should/must do, so the list goes on.

I wonder if I can ever totally eliminate my next actions lists. Even for a day.

I got back from my (windy, short) ride on the Fuji yesterday, ate dinner, showered, etc, when I looked at the bike and noticed that the pedals weren’t settling properly. They’re LOOK-style clipless pedals and normally they hang with the front part up so that it’s easy to hook the cleat on and clip in. The left pedal was not doing this, and was sitting at some weird angle.

I went over and looked at it, and much to my dismay I saw opaque gray goo (grease) around the bearing. Furthermore, the bearing is kind of stiff and doesn’t turn near as easily as it should, hence the screwy resting position. I read my bike repair book, determined that these are probably sealed bearings, and that I screwed mine up. I looked at the bottom of the pedal, and the paint was scraped up a bit, so I must have banged it falling over when I didn’t clip my left foot in quickly enough.

Bah. I went ebay and found another set. I found that I had overpaid by nearly $30 on the original set ( and this is with MSRP ). Anyway, found another set on ebay, presently waiting to see how the auction goes. If all goes well I’ll still have saved a bit of $$ with labor and parts compared to going to my LBS, where I purchased the bike.

In that vein, I just ordered a repair manual for my ’95 Saturn from Amazon. I have an engineering degree, for chrissake. I should be fixing this stuff myself as much as possible.